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The Commoner.
JUNE 19, 1903.
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and, Neb., and on the Sou-hern Pacific
road.
A strike is on In the leading hotels
of Chicago, 111., among the waiters. It
is reported that 25 of the leading ho
tels of the city are affected by the
strike. The stride issue concerns the
question of wages and hours.
A landslide by whic'.i one side of a
mountain near Tyron, N. C, caved n
on June 32 has blocked all railroad
trafflc in that vicinity. It is feared that
this is but the bgin.iing of other land
slides on the SaludaJ mountain, as an
other crack in it has been observed.
A HOLY EMBLEM
The American flag association was
formed in 1897. The purpose of thia
organization is to prevent desecration
of the flag; and r its energies are gen
erally exerted toward prevention of
the printing on the flag of advertise
ments and to the encouragement of an
affection for the nation emblem.
In line with its purpose, this asso
ciation designed June 14 as Flag day.
This date was chosen because on June
11, 1777, the congress, by enactment,
formally described the beautiful em
blem which we know as the American
flag, and adopted it as representative
oC the American republic.
It happens that in the year of 1903
Flag day fell on the Sabbath, and
therefore Monday, June 15, was gen
erally observed.
The purpose of- the American Flag
association is in keeping with Wash
ington's farewell address as, indeed, it
is directly in line with the effort to
establish and maintain a practical pa
triotism. In his farewell address,
"Washington admonished his country
men to
"Cherish a cordial, habitual and im
movable attachment to it; (the gov
ernment) accustoming ourselves to
think and speak of it as of the pal
ladium of your political safety and
prosperity; watching for its preserva
tion with jealous anxiety; discounte
nancing whatever may suggest even a
suspicion that it can in any event be
abandoned and indignantly frowning
upon the first dawning of every at
tempt to alienate any portion of our
country from the rest or to enfeeble
the sacred ties which now link to
gether the various parts."
This, then, is an important day for
the American people. Has it ever oc
curred to the .thoughtful man that
among all the beautiful emblems of
the- world, the American flag is the
piettiest thing afloat? Can it be that
this par excellence of beauty is a mere
accident; and may it not be that the
superiority of the principles upon
which our government is founded must
have had something to do with the
superior beauty of our flag?
Men who have traveled abroad say
that after their eyes have been accus
tomed to the sights of foreign lands,
the most refreshing vision they have
been privileged to greet is that of the
stars and stripes flapping in the breeze
of a foreign shore. To be sure, th3
subject of a monarchy would find
gratification in the sight of his own
fiag because of its suggestions of
home. But there is in our own flag
something so indescribably beautiful?
something that appeals so directly to
the heart of the individual, that the
enthusiasm with which it is greeted
may not be .entirely attributed to the J
fact that so far as the American is
concerned, it stands as the sign post
pointing toward his loved ones.
It is entirely proper that the Ameri
can Flag association see to it that
the splendid banner which represents
the greatest government on earth bo
not used as an advertising medium for
individual enterprise. But while this
is important, is it not all the more im
portant that men who love the flag so
much that they would not have it
desecrated by the advertisement of in
dividual enterprise exert their energies
to see to it that the flag is not dose
crated by the repudiation of the prin
ciples for which the flag is presumed
to stand?
Several years ago when Admiral
Schley, the hero of Santiago bay,
visited Omaha and became the guest
of our beloved fellow townsman, Gen.
Charles F. Manderson, a very pretty
scene was enacted in the Manderson
home. Among Admiral Schley's call
ers was a bright lad of perhaps 15
years of age. After receiving the ad
miral's greeting, the boy unrolled a
beautiful silk flag and handing it to
Schley, asked that he write his name
upon it. No observer of that scene
could forget it The hero of Santiago
bay held the. flag before him and said
"What a beautiful thing it is. Indeed
in it not the most beautiful emblem
that was ever presented to the sight
or man?" And then, turning to hlr,
visitor, he said: "My boy, don't ask
me to write my name on that flag.
There is no name, less than that of
God himself, that is worthy of a place
upon this beautiful flag. I'll tell you
what I'll do. I'll write my name on a
card and you keep the flag and see to
it. my boy, that It is never desecrated
if it is within your power to prevent"
It is related that when Cuba was
formally declared to be a republic, and
when, over Moro castle, the Cuban
flag was raised and the American flag,
that for several months had held the
place of honor there, was lowered, a
number of Cubans ruBhed forward, and
aa our flag ncared the ground they
gathered it in their arms saying, out of
the gratitude of their hearts, that It
must not touch the earth. Then and
there, grateful for the generous con
tiibutions we had made to their lib
erty and to the liberty of the world,
these Cubans pressed the emblem of
our own liberties to their breasts and
covered it with kisses, while thei:
tears rained upon it
A beautiful picture, indeed; and does
anyone imagine for a moment that all
this emotion was duo to the mere
beauty of the bunting itself? Do we
not know that it was duo to the things
for which that bunting stands? And
is it not important that those who
love the flag sufficiently to pay the
tribute of observing what Is now
known as Flag day shall see to it
that the flag is carefully protected
from the desecration involved in the
adoption by our country of un-American
principles as it is from the mere
detail of being employed as an adver
tising medium? Is it not fitting that
on this day, while we fling to the
breeze the most beautiful emblem that
has ever been devised as representa
tive of a nation's principles, we conse
crate ourselves anew to the things for
which that flag Is presumed to jBtand.
Years ago one of the greatest of
American orators, speaking of tho
American flag, said that
"Tho stars upon It are to tho pining
netlons Hko the bright morning stara
o2 God, and tho stripes upon It aro
beams of morning light As at early
dawn tho stars shlno forth oven while
it grows light, and than, as the sun
advances that light breaks Into banks
and streaming lines of color, the glow
ing red and Intense white striving fV
gether and ribbing tho horizon with
bars effulgent, so, on tho American
flag, stars and beams of many-col
ored light shine out together. It Is
tho banner of dawn. It means liberty;
and tho galley-slave, the poor op
pressed conscript, tho trodden-down
creature of foreign despotism, sees in
the American flag that very promise
and prediction of God 'The people
which sat in darkness saw a great
light; and to them which sat In the
region and shadow of death light Is
sprung up.' "
And then, this orator said: "How
glorious has been its origin! How
ClfirlmiH hna Imnn tta hla,.rf tr.,p
divine it its mennintr: In nil tho
world is there another bannor Hint
carrlos such hope, such grandeur of
spirit, such soul-Inspiring truth as our
dear old American flag, mado of lib
erty, made for liberty, nourished in
itn spirit, carried In its service and
never, not once in all the earth, mado
to etoou to despotism?"
Can wo of today, with full under
standing of the policies which tho
American government has pursued to
ward "our new possessions," say, as
this great American orator said, tht
rever, not once in all the earth, was
this flag mado to stoop to despotism?
Tho simple and solemn truth is that
we cannot say this; and yot in tho
hope that sooner or later, this na
tion may revise Ita policies and may
take on a now birth of freedom, it U
fitting that the American people cele
brate Flag day in this year of 1903,
and nail to tho mast their holy em
Mem, hoping and balieving that In
God's good time they may point to
that bunting of unparalleled beauty,
and to that omblem of righteous prin
ciples as the poet of old did when ho
wrote:
"Flag of the free heart's hope and
heme!
By angel hands to valour given! -
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in
heaven.
Fc rever float that standard sheet:
Where breathes the foe but falls
before us,
With freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And freedom's banner streaming
o'er us?"
Omaha World-Herald.
To Encourage Emerson.
Robert Collyer tells a story involv
ing Emerson which was told him by
Wendell Phillips.
"Once while I was lecturing in the
west," said Mr. Phillips, "a young
fellow came up to me as I was leav
ing the platform. He introduced him
self, explained that a lecture course
was being talked of In his town for tho
next season, and wanted to know if I
would bo kind enough to suggest; some
good lecturers. I replied that I would
be glad to do so, and named Henry
Ward Beecher, George William Cur
tis, Bayard Taylor, and Emerson.
'"Emerson? Emerson?" said the
young fellow, looking perplexed; 'who
is Emerson?'
"I informed him that Emerson was
the leading philosopher of the coun
try, one of its great original thinkers.
The young fellow reflected a moment
and then observed:
" 'Well, Mr. Phillips, we'll put Em
erson on our course if you say so
I suppose a man of that sort ought to
be encouraged.'" - Philadelphia
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